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The funniest neighbor, the whole family only marries one wife. How can this custom exist?

As the saying goes, there is nothing strange in the world. The culture, diet and customs of each country are different. As far as I know, "this funny neighbor, the country where the whole family only marries one wife" is Nepal.

Nepal is our neighbor and has not established diplomatic relations with China so far. Although poor and backward in the world, it is also one of the countries with the highest happiness index in the world. Women in this country can marry multiple men, which is what we call "polygamy". Although Nepal is now monogamous, the tradition of polygamy still exists in remote places such as Honglashan.

This "polyandry" system is not free to marry many people you like, but must marry a mother's brother. Because Nepal is very strict about blood, they think that only their own brother's blood type is the closest in this world, so a wife can only marry her own brother. Moreover, Nepalese women should not be partial to their two husbands, but should be consistent and equal, but it is not easy to do this.

In fact, a long time ago, Nepal was also a country where men lived outside and women lived inside. This is the same as other countries, but because the men in the family often go out to work, the women who earn money are responsible for taking care of the big and small things at home. Gradually, the status of women became higher and higher, even higher than that of men, which eventually led to Nepal becoming a feminist country, and even the marriage system stood on the side of women, so the later marriage system was changed to "polygamy".